Breville the Smart Rice Box LRC480

Not sure what so many people are getting wrong with this product! Follow the instructions and it works like a charm. Best rice I've ever had - light and fluffy every time. Works great for white, low GI white, Jasmine and brown. Doesn't stick to bowl (just wondering if other users are forgetting to rinse their rice first). And I'm not worried… Read more

about the all the chemicals I used to ingest from the cheap machines. Downside? Yes, it is slow to cook compared to those cheap machines but once you get used to cooking time (like after 2nd time you use it) you simply put rice on earlier as part of meal the prep.

I have forgotten when I bought this. So its from a while ago. But it still works very well.

Had a previous Breville Rice Box which lasted more than 7 years and replaced it with another Breville. Not sure why other reviewers had problems, but white and brown rice comes up perfectly every time. The only negative was measuring the water level for the brown rice. The markings on the black ceramic pot were almost impossible to read, and nearly resulted in a loss of a star! Show details

Constantly overcooks rice – I don't know if you just shouldn't cook as little as 2 measures of rice in this. As an example and following the directions I rinsed 2 measures of jasmine rice, let drain then put it in the cooker with 2 measures of cold water ensuring the rice sat level. I then chose white and pressed start. At the point the timer went off I fluffed the rice,… Read more

but then took it out because it was already a bit overcooked.

God knows what it would have been like had I closed the lid and let it cook the additional 13 mins it wanted according to fuzzy logic.

Am I doing something obvious wrong?

The first lot I had to throw in the bin and the last one I just did was months after as I felt I had wasted my money and cook rice better in a pot of water.

Unfortunately due to not having proof of purchase after giving a return authorisation Breville have advised nothing further can be done and “ you may need a little more time working out measurements and quantities. We also retail the unit for $64.95.”

The unit still retails for $199 at Myer

Stay away, use a pot of boiling water or the absorption method

Good for price point – Worth spending the extra $$ on for the additional uses available Show details

The jury is still out – My Breville Rice Box lasted nearly 5 years and has served me well and time for a replacement. The store l went to was out of stock so l purchased the newer model which had fuzzy logic (The Smart Rice Box) which according to the blurb would be better. The biggest flaw is that the quantity and water level markings on the cooking bowl were black… Read more

against a black background (not white on black) so you cannot easily see the quantity or water levels. A big drawback due to a simple design fault. Does fuzzy logic cook rice better ? The jury is still out.

Thank You Breville, Fantasic Appliance! – Having been told by various people how good rice cookers are I bought a mid-range, well known brand one which was on sale for $55 and I was very disappointed when the rice kept over-cooking and burning so I took it back and they replaced it with another one that did exactly the same thing! I gave up and threw that one in the bin (after leaving a… Read more

scathing review online) and bought another well known brand rice cooker on sale for $85 and sure enough the rice kept over-cooking and burning again. By this time I am thinking "What in the hell is going on? Everyone swears by these rice cookers yet I can't seem to find one that works"! I gave up for a while and then a few months later I was in Myers and they had this Breville one on sale. The first thing I noticed, apart from the much higher price tag, was the quality of the bowl. I had already wasted $140 on defunct rice cookers but in for a penny, in for a pound right? I checked the reviews online and everywhere they were really good so I took the plunge and I have never looked back!

Thank you Breville, this Rice Cooker is fantastic! I just wish someone had of told me it's all about the bowl, it would have saved me a LOT of money, time and ruined rice. Breville seems to be the only company who knows how to make a functional rice cooker, it's thumbs up from me.

Saves me every time – Legit cooks rice perfectly every time if you follow the measurements. We've cooked coconut rice, sushi rice, brown rice, white rice in this bad boi and never had any trouble. You basically chuck the rice and water in and forget about it until it starts beeping at you! I will admit that it's a little large for our current needs, but it's great to cook in bulk for food prep etc too.  Show details

How do You Cook Perfect Fluffy Rice? – I have read 100's of reviews all claiming this Rice Box to be the one. In fact, perfect rice every time. I followed the instructions to the "T." 2cups of rice = 2 cups of water, what I got was rubber rice. So I added 3 cups of water and got sticky glutinous rice. I tried 2cups of rice to 2 1/2 cups of water and took the rice out at minus 7mins.… Read more

Although it was cooked it certainly was not fluffy.

So I thank an Amazon reviewer who said " for fluffy rice rinse under boiling water. :-) I did so much better at microwaving the rice.

This is a good rice cooker – I have bought this Rice cooker recently to replace my Panasonic Rice cooker. I have to say, this one make as good rice as the panasonic one. The Rice is fluffy and the machine is easy to navigate. This Rice cooker is not as perfect as the high end rice cooker such as Tiger or Zijorushi but it is good enough for me and other people who are on tight… Read more

budget. This Rice cooker is much better the the cheaper or cheapest rice cooker at the moment. I would recommend to buy this one.

Disappointed – Purchased this one after the pot in our Panasonic multicooker had died and there was no replacement pot available. In short, we are disappointed with the Breville. The previous one seemed to be much more intelligent. E.g. in the Steam mode, I could set it to 5 minutes, and the timer started counting down when the water was boiling and steam was… Read more

coming out of the vent, which means the device either sensed the temperature or had a steam sensor. This one does not do it, i.e. you set it to Steam for 15 minutes, and the timer starts the countdown immediately after pressing the Start button, so we now have to guess the time it'll take to heat the water to the boiling point and add that predicted time to the timer setting. The Breville multicooker is bad at cooking porridge, cos the previous one was cooking it just below the boiling point perfectly, we could set the delay timer in the evening and forget about it, and get perfect porridge in the morning, but the Breville seems to be boiling it at full power, so porridge intensively bubbles out of the vent and gets spilled on the lid and around the device, meaning that you should always keep an eye on it. Not too sure what exactly we could cook in it automatically. Rice seems to cook ok though. I currently use it mainly as an egg cooker, i.e. I pour 2 cups of cold water in it, place eggs on the steam tray, set the device to Steam, set the timer to 13 minutes, and when it beeps, my eggs are just perfectly soft boiled.